Re: Standard mechanism for telling why a record hasn't been deleted?

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:09 AM, psybear83 <psybear83@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Is there a standard mechanism for telling why a record hasn't been
> deleted?
>
> When a record isn't deleted, it just tells "Xxx was not deleted", but
> without any reason. So for example, when I'm creating a
> beforeDelete(..) hook that prevents the record from deletion, how
> should I let the user know why it hasn't been deleted?
>
> Would using a $deletionError variable be an acceptable way?
>
> function beforeDelete($cascade) {
>  if($this->hasDependentRecords()) {
>    $this->deletionError = 'record has dependent records';
>    return false;
>  }
> }
>
> And in the controller:
>
> if ($this->Post->delete($id)) {
>  ...
> } else {
>  $this->Session->setFlash('Post was not deleted because '.$this->Post-
>>deletionError);
> }
>
> What do you think about this solution? Is there a better way?

Seems reasonable. I don't know if there's anything built in.

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